[Jabberwock]

I am a translator and in my work I sometimes need to convert PDF into more editable format (rtf and doc mostly). I have found out, and my colleagues support that observation, that the best tool to do it is Abby Finereader. It is an OCR program, but with PDF it extracts the text directly from the file.

The big advantage is that you can select exactly what you want to be extracted (for example to skip headers and footers) and how much of the original format is to be maintained.

I realize that it may be expensive for some who do not need to use it often, but I guess Reader users will sooner or later put to use their scanners and digital cameras anyway? An OCR software will be handy, then...

Note: make sure that you draw all the frames manually on the pages (or draw one which suits all the pages, save it and apply to other pages). The automatic recognition is not that great... It make seem to be tedious at first, but it saves a lot of work later.